February 28, 2014

On Wednesday, Barnes & Noble released its third quarter results for the fiscal year 2014. The company reported a profit (though revenues were down 8.8% compared to the previous year),… Read more »

Booksellers & bookselling

Ask a bookseller---Book Court's Bonnie Chau — Melville House
Customer threatens Northshire Bookstore for displaying the Qur’an — Kait Howard
Isis Books & Gifts changes signage, dodges blind wrath of ignorant brick-throwers — Simon Reichley
Barnes & Noble takes penultimate step to exiting Queens — Liam O'Brien

Nigerian authors speak out against the country’s anti-gay law, “reminiscent of Nazi Germany”

Julia Fleischaker

While the Sochi Olympics ensured that Russia has gotten the lion’s share of the world’s attention for their shocking treatment and criminalization of homosexuality, the Nigerian government has been doing… Read more »

“We are committed to the idea that book shops matter”: James Daunt criticises and defends Waterstones

Zeljka Marosevic

The managing director of Waterstones, James Daunt, spoke yesterday to attendees at the Independent Publishers Guild (IPG) conference, and addressed some of the biggest questions being thrown at the national bookshop… Read more »

Calvin & Hobbes creator breaks silence, releases new art

Christopher King

Don’t get too excited—Calvin & Hobbes aren’t returning to print anytime soon. But a new documentary about newspaper comics, appropriately titled Stripped, has inspired Bill Watterson, the creator of… Read more »

New online bookstore from former Amazon/Waterstones employee Kieron Smith

Kirsten Reach

Kieron Smith, the former managing director of Amazon’s Book Depository, is starting his own bookselling venture. He announced the launch of an online store, Best Little Bookshop, yesterday at the… Read more »

Melville House Books

Barnes & Noble could be doing worse, but the Nook is still a disaster

Alex Shephard